Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), was a legend even during his lifetime. A dangerous artist of Italian painting, the artist was both famous and controversial: Violent in temperament, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man in perpetual flight.

This edition offers a comprehensive reassessment of Caravaggio's entire body of work with a catalog of his artworks. Each painting has been reproduced with recent, high-production photography allowing dramatic close-ups of Caravaggio's ingenious details.

Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio's artistic career, from his early struggles to make a living, through his first public commissions in Rome, to his rising fame. They examine his ever-increasing boldness with lighting and the restrictive realism that allowed even biblical events to unfold with unique immediacy before the viewer.

Pages: 512, Year of Publication: 1127, Dimensions: 15.6x15.6cm